India’s Negotiation Strategy in the Climate Change Conference of Parties

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Srivastava, Sanjay^{; *}

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding Author. sanjaychanakya@gmail.com

Abstract: In this research, author addresses the question of negotiation analysis of the climate change talks. The central variable is India’s negotiation strategies from Rio Earth Summit (1992) to Katowice Conference of Parties (CoP, 2018). This long span of negotiation also marks the era of globalization and global power shift with the rise of two Asian powers: India and China. India’s ascendance and changing structure of global politics also notices a change in India’s foreign policy and consequent change in negotiation strategies commensurate to its rising power status, such as India’s changing stances in the negotiations from a “naysayer” to a “partner” of the climate change collective action. The other derivative enquiries delineated here are: India’s global coalitional diplomacy and the drifts in style and substance in negotiation strategy that have occurred in recent times.

Keywords: India, Climate Change negotiations, Negotiation analysis, Conference of Parties

DOI: 10.3233/JCC190013

Journal: Journal of Climate Change, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 73-78, 2019